Description

Results-driven Senior Program/Project Manager with 20 years' experience planning, organizing, directing, and

controlling over 50 company projects from conception (A) to completion (Z). Supervised and oversaw teams

of ICT professionals in a multitude of locations (Europe, Asia, and Australia). Passionate in bridging business

and IT. Experienced in a multiple ICT roles.

Languages

Dutch
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Native or bilingual
German
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Brussel (up to 50km)

Open Mindit BVBA
Managing Director
January 2009 - Today (17 years and 5 months)
Leopoldsburg, Belgium
Open Mindit is specialized in providing professional advise in the area of Program & Project Management, Software Development, Quality Assurance (Test & Validation) and Project roll-out, Commissioning and Support. Beside those areas we can provide expertise in the domains of Organisation, Crisis Management, Company re-organization, etc. Experienced in managing small, medium and large (> 100M €) projects
Agentschap Justitie en Handhaving
Project Manager
April 2021 - Today (5 years and 2 months)
Brussels, Belgium
Project Manager - Electronic Monitoring System (with strong focus on innovation)
- Coordinate the tendering process (based on Competitive Dialogue Procedure)
- Report on progress towards management of the Agency and "Kabinet" of minister
- Define and manage the project timeline and budget follow-up
- Project implementation and migration
- Program and project Governance
- Risk, issue and mitigation management
- Manage teams within the Flemish, French and German-speaking Community and assign tasks
- Prepare and lead SteerCo's
- Bridge between Business, IT and Supplier
- Stakeholder management
- API coordination
Elision
Digital Project Manager
July 2022 - January 2023 (6 months)
Antwerp, Belgium
Delivery of an SAP e-Commerce solution (Cloud) integrated with SalesForce and S/4Hana Responsible for overall Project Management (including integrations).
- Lead project from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, and project implementation plans
- Manage cross-functional teams in the development and execution, coordinate daily activities and maintain communication between the company executives and internal teams (e.g. designers, architects, developers, ... )
- Work with QA ensure customer satisfaction
- Coordinate "integrations" between internal and external partners
- Develop and administer timelines, identify risks/issues and proactively elicit solution proposals with the team
- Communicate a clear and concise project status to all teams and collaborate with management to exercise a solution-oriented way to escalate road blockers to management
- Use Project Management Software (JIRA, Confluence) for the accurate tracking of the status, planning, and eliciting of task status